Camden County GA Becomes First Georgia Coastal County to Adopt Data Center Moratorium, Amid Kingsland Rezoning Withdrawal

Camden County’s Board of Commissioners adopted a 6-month moratorium on data-center development on May 6, 2026, becoming the first county on Georgia’s coast to do so. The vote followed a rezoning request — reportedly linked to businessman Kirk Tovey — for land in and around Kingsland intended for a data-center industrial park; that request was rescinded amid environmental-impact concerns and an unusual public objection from the commanding officer of the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. The moratorium applies only to unincorporated county land, not the cities within it.

This is a distinct county from the Georgia data-center moratorium wave already tracked in this corpus — Cherokee (2026-07-21–cherokee-county-ga-30-day-data-center-moratorium), DeKalb (2026-07-07–dekalb-county-ga-extends-data-center-moratorium-march-2027), and Douglas (2026-07-07–douglas-county-ga-blocks-edgeconnex-700-acre-data-center-campus) — and it’s notable for the military objection: a Navy submarine base commander weighing in against a data-center rezoning is a distinct resistance vector from the ratepayer/zoning arguments driving the other county fights, suggesting grid and water demand concerns extend to federal installations, not just civilian ratepayers.